Travel in the Box

This project, in formal artistic terms, connects a documentary,
post-creative methodology with the documents/facts of the past. The
work is about a survival strategy, employed – generally as a last
resort – by migrants, the marginalized, and others, who are "robbed" of
dignified life and who only want the freedom to exist or to be who
they are, as well as the right to travel, to work, and to go to school
... A few years ago, while Raščić was travelling in
North America, she came across a children's book that tells the story
of Henry Box Brown, a slave, who in 1849 sent himself to freedom in
another state by mail. Recently, a young and poor black man named
Charles McKinley sent himself home as cargo, because he simply could
not afford a plane ticket. The work of art, in a local and regional
context, coincides with migration, a phenomenon known since prehistory;
however, instead of adapting the entire legislation to the rights of
the disadvantaged, the opposite is true – the European and Slovenian
national regulations are not only repressive but also becoming
increasingly fascist.